How is that non-discoverable? Most software literally tells you beside the copy/paste entry that it is ctrl+c/v.

Because the first part is to select text with a mouse?

No It isn't. You have various shortcuts on your keyboard that can select text. With many of them labeled in context menus as well.

> option clicking was best analogy to right clicking on Apple since the mouse used to have one button.

Not high praise for Apple, wasn't the 1 button mouse the laughing stock of mouse users everywhere? :-)

Only the ones who’d learned about two-button mice.

When the one-button mouse arrived, the majority of the population had never touched a mouse.

True, but by the time the one button mouse left, the majority of the population had definitely seen or used a two or even three button mouse.

We're talking about a decision that took 2 decades to reverse.

My Apple Magic Mouse 2 doesn't have a discoverable right click button.

There's still a lot of software which displays ctrl+C/V next to the matching menu entry.

But you select text with the mouse, it’s understandable to continue the workflow with the mouse

"Your complaint is like saying that having to copy and paste with ctrl c and ctrl v is non discoverable in Windows with a two button mouse because in Linux it’s just select text and middle click somewhere else."

No it isn't, because those functions have equivalent menu items.

Easter-egg controls in a GUI are a different (and inexcusable) story.

Selecting text and it going to a clipboard is just as Easter eggy in my opinion. How is a user supposed to discover that?